curl slow connect_time

Question

Consider this code in a php file on my VPS server: ``` <?php $url = 'http://www.google.com'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $content = curl_exec($ch); $ci = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); var_dump($ci); ?> ``` returns this ``` array(22) { ["url"]=> string(21) "http://www.google.com" ["content_type"]=> string(24) "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ["http_code"]=> int(200) ["header_size"]=> int(2055) ["request_size"]=> int(147) ["filetime"]=> int(-1) ["ssl_verify_result"]=> int(0) ["redirect_count"]=> int(0) ["total_time"]=> float(50.095466) ["namelookup_time"]=> float(0.001114) ["connect_time"]=> float(50.019724) ["pretransfer_time"]=> float(50.019825) ["size_upload"]=> float(0) ["size_download"]=> float(23156) ["speed_download"]=> float(462) ["speed_upload"]=> fl…

Accepted Answer

Try:

```
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 ); 
```

The above will prevent cURL from trying IPv6 first.

curl slow connect_time

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